Born in Appalachia, went ex-pat at 18 to party with eurotrash for 10 years. Since I hadn't been jailed, killed or in rehab by 30, I came back to the US for a boring life, only to find myself more disgusted by the path this nation is taking. Words have power, thought I'd try to use mine, see what happens as religious blow back really doesn't frighten me.
This novel plumbs the depths of spiritual abuse committed in the name of various religions and their patriarchal tenets, some practices of which exist to this day. Throughout the story will be footnotes directing the reader to the back of the book where the incident of spiritual abuse will be outlined by where the practice occurred or is still being practiced and various charities set up to aid the victims.
Although the subject matter may prove controversial, it perhaps could be commercially viable as when I entered a dirty first draft of chapter one in Hodderscape’s call for open submissions several years ago, out of a field of over 1500 manuscripts, ‘Caryatid Rising’ (rough title, quite subject to change), lasted until the final cut of 25. Unless it got lost on somebody’s desk and was only rediscovered to get the boot, which is always possible.
